US plans permanent Guantanamo jails

[TexasLawyer]

More and more, I don't even recognize my country anymore.


US plans permanent Guantanamo jails

Julian Borger in Washington
Monday January 3, 2005
The Guardian

The United States is preparing to hold terrorism suspects indefinitely without trial, replacing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with permanent prisons in the Cuban enclave and elsewhere, it was reported yesterday.

The new prisons are intended for captives the Pentagon and the CIA suspect of terrorist links but do not wish to set free or put on trial for lack of hard evidence.

The plans have emerged at a time when the US is under increasing scrutiny for the interrogation methods used on the roughly 550 "enemy combatants" at the Guantanamo Bay base, who do not have the same rights as traditional prisoners of war. A leaked Red Cross report described the techniques used as "tantamount to torture".

Over the weekend the New York Times quoted a former interrogator as saying one in six detainees were subject to harsh techniques including sleep deprivation, exposure to constant loud music or adver tising jingles, and being shackled for long periods to a low chair.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1382362,00.html

[TragicHipster]

1. This is how the resistance begins

There are always people who will work to stop this.

[Liberty Belle]

2. Gulags run by America. Disgusting.